The Sun. — London, England, 1826-05-22 00:00:00

r , 11,/he I'ack }lota/ Inn, Huddertdeld. Attcrties, Mr. %liter, tint fit's ;nn-fields, Loudon; and Meters. Ckurhs, Brook, and rihriton, Thiddefffirld. S. Ilittradey, Huddersfield, woolstripler. June 5, 12, and July 1, at ten ) at the Pack Horse Inn, Huddersfield. Attornies, Mr. %at* Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; and ?Assns. (*loughs, Smelt, ar,d Norton, Iladdertifleld. W. iiaarley, Sheffield, provision-dealer, June 5,6, and July 1. at rut. at the Star Inn, Manchester. Attornies, Messrs. Per kns . 1 5 : , ,tupton, Gray's lan-square, London ; and Mr. J. Itotr.v*r. k , Marachesttr. • 'l. Ittyl:r, Clement's Inn, money-scrivrtatr, Itiq 23, 30, and July 1, at eleven,-. at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. ,Hutley and' San, Pump-court, Temple. M. ;rinses and L. /loges, - Great Ptescut-street, Goodman's -fields, .41etcharits,.May at two, and July 1. at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Atteriey, Burv-.treet St. it ‘ 'ioay Axe.' • Garforth, and S. Gar(orli,r. Ovcndon, YorlAiee, mer chants, June 1, at twelve, at titeN, dwAtu,l,rsuiford.,, June 2, and July 1„ at twelve, at the 0131 Cock . rnn; 'Halifax. Attornies, Mersts—jaques and Battye, CoretnLil-itrett, Loulort ; anti Mr. W. V. Holroyde, Halifax. rOltOnt Chatham-place, Hackney, :i'Arrhant, May 27, at to Jsre !I, at one, and July 1, at tcai the-Cliurt.oi C.tuntis• Attornies, Messrs. rys , ..n BeeltointilUtY. P. C . r..arrrtan, Pia c dilly, jeweller, gay SO ) IttasPilli I and July . 1, at' ter., at the Court of Commissioners. AttoititY:Mr.Young,. Poiand•street, Oxford-street. V: V. Ilitter and J. Gnodinge, High Holborn , line n dra p ers, May g 9: at ten, June 3, and July 1. at one, at the Court of Coin- Inis4ttktr. Attornies, Messrs. Willis, Watson, Bower, and Wil , lis, 'fol.:‘•o;oa4e-yard. S. P. Chapman, King-street, Cheapt.ider warehouseman, Nl:q SO, June 6, anti July 1, at ten, at the Court of Com- Atturnier, Mae.ere. liatt>e, *Fisher, and badlnw, k :ir Vi . ikrapp, Crav:forti-streex, St. Marylehone, hatter, May 27, at eic,•to, lune 3, alai July 1, at ten, at the Court of Coconis }c;,-:: Attiartliir, llrrsars. Bullet :anti Henderson, Northumber- Ltn.l.,treet, Ilaryleher.e. 12. Cribb:, t•-t‘sex, ).h'y 1)0, June 10, anti 1, at ten, at the Cense, of ; itllkent, Lurrdau. Attor • Jar. a, Kings •iilvq, o.:lrither , :;:.l-rawi , Saint George's tt,PV Fast, NVarekstvr., tailor, *May ut elevert. June 10. at ten, at the Cuurt af Cotatt,iwt.'wner*, I.obaLti. At )li.ers. 11(.1.ini.in and Hint, Charter Hum-square, ..aJZsi at .Al,dcrson, 11,tneliesh r, dealer, Jute 5, U, and July 1, ;Gate, the `tar tun, Nialicht.,tel . . Attu-mini, Messrs. !Anne and l'orry, 'fol.ple, London ; and Montt. Ainsiv Gott, Crossley, and .slattetosster. Strand, limn-holier, May 23, 27, at two, and 1, t Bosco, at the Court ut: Comutissiunets. Atnanise, Nkee. t. and S.tn, slancltester-bnilditv, Westminster. t. Cooke, jun. Birmingham, brass-fotintler, June 3,0, and J u ly. I, at tote, at the. Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Attnruies, Amory end Cults, Throginurton-street; stal Sir. J. Pt.rke4, Birmingham. lieu. 'Bastes', Staffordshire, miller, June 2, at six, and . June end July 1, ut nine, at the Littleton Arms Inn, Penkritige, Attomies. Mr. Hunt, Craven-street, Strand, ; and Messrs. J, Willim and Son, Biloton. W. :\Jaiben, Brighthelnistorte, stable-keeper, May 30, June 3, at tivti, awl July 1, at eleven, at the New Inn, Brighthelinstone. At- Nforws •Furrier and Hill, Brighthelinstone ; and Messrs. ('ranee, klia Palmer, Bedford-rote, I,ondon. J. P. Hall, Liverpool, merchant, July 1,2, and June 1, at one, at lt,e Golden Lion, Liverpool.. Attornies, Messrs. Blackstock King's 'tench-walk, Temple, London; and Messrs Liverpool. J, Manchester, oil merchant, June 1,5, and July 1, at t the Star Inn, Manchester. Attornies, Alessrs. Hunt ;.:,1 Johnson, Temple, London ; and Mr. Hahne, Manchester. J. Dinhant, Exeter, grocer, June 5,0, and July 1, at el.-een, at the Globe Hotel, Exeter. Attornies, Messrs. Terrell !Lai Tucker, Exeter ; and Mr. Shaw, Ely-place, Holborn, 1.4n1)a. J. CAttell, V,',,,,d-street, milk man, May 27, at ten, June 3, at twelve, anti July 1, at eleven, at the Gnat of Couunis st mei 4. Attornitei, Alessrs. Sweet, Stokes. stoi Carr, Bating-: Jr,. Halt, Liverpool, rnoratnit elotreoul-tuantifueturer, June 14, lei, tout July 1, at ow., at the Angel Inn, Liverpool. At -tonics, Mr. Chester, Staple Inn, London; and Afr. itotvtion, Prts,, , ovt J. Twer.tyman, sen. and J. Twentyman, jun. Keswick, Crogth wtite, Cumberland, woollen-manufacturers, June 29, 50, and July 1, .tt eleven, ut ; the Glube Inn, Cockermouth, Atuirnies, Mr. Cheapside, London ; and Molars. Either, IA ',to, Cockerinnuth. • L,adley, Cloughtun, Yorkshire, bacon-factor, May 29, 30, sad July 1, et three, at the Talbot Ism, Scarborough, Attornies, 61,', Edmunds, Exchequer Oilier, Lincoln's Inn; and Mr. Page, •,.; 70 Pearse, Chester, s t a y-manufacturer, June 10, at four, lo, and .Js4 1. at ten, at the Golden Lion Inn, Chester. Attorniea, Mr. Wini; jun. Chester; and Messrs. Ellis, Sons, Walmsley, and Gor vet, Chancery-lane, London. 13. Cliestarman, Holies-street, Clare-market, carpenter, May 27, Aeveo, June% anti July 1, at ten, at the Court of Coinniissioners, Attorne, Mr. Cox, Poultry. W. Phipps, Higli-strest, Shorutliteb, willow-hat-manufacturer, June 10, and July 1, at eleven, at the Court of Cam* Attt)rnles, Messrs Birkett, Taylor, and Cox, Cloak- I. M. Clifite, Lower Marsh-etroet, Lambeth, bout.maker, Ivhy WI, June 8, and July I," at one, at the Court of Com ru.l44ioners. Attorney, Mr. Steveueon, Ave Mairia.lane, Lud gate-bill. Waringtoo, sem; Hart-street, 'Mat It.lane, wine broker, May Ail, June S, and July 1, at eleven, at the Court of Commit a'ern3ra, Attornie3, 'Maur*. Cook and Hunter, Clement's Inn 'New Ch W. - Jonas, Itaiiihrou, Kent, barge-master, May SO, atten, June 3, awl July I, at one, at the Court of Commitieloner4. Attoinies, edt, Aubrey, 'look's-court, Cursitor.itreet, London ; and Mr. Acvorth, Rochester, Kent. Slee and .J. Woodrow, Upper East Smithfield, brewere, he y g 7, at eleven, SO, at ten, and July at eleven, at the quirt of Committionets. Attorney, Mr. Hayward, Eitex-tmurt, l'o,mpht , DIVIMNDS, 3. WP.;ls and W. Oriyors,• Blshopgate-street.Without, woollen. dripers, June 10, at one, at Balinglall-street—J. Fisher, Taun ton, Somersetshire, draper, June 10, at eleven, at Basinghall. street.—P. Byrne, Bucklerkury, Manchester-warehouseman, June 27, at tan, at Basinghall.street—A. Hawkins, St. Alban's, .thopkeeper, Jane ltl, at nine, at Basinghall.street—h l . and 11. PhMips, Devousliitv street, Ilishopsgate.atreet, liatters, May 22, at tln, at Basinghali-street—C. Hale, Egham, Surrey, innkeeper, di.ot 10, at ten, at !lasi:Thell.street—W. Padgeet, Vauxhall, nv-,cer, June 10, at ten, at Basinghall-atre,rt-1. and R. Dodson, 1.-.,,estria, Yorkshire, wool-staplers, June le, at twelv,r, at the r. , :urt-house • Loads--J. 'Leeds, River, June 21, at eleven, et the SeSsions-boule, Leeds—J. Billing, Oxford-street, livery. *table-keeper, June 10, at ten, at Basinghall.street—T. Roby, Ts"worth, tanner, June 10, at nine, at Baainghall-street—A. Clerk, Jeruryn.street, liayrnarket, carpenter, June 10, at ten, at mid 11. Weissenbors, 'Upper Ilonoway, board inK-houw-keepera, June 13, at nine, at Easingilan-at. -4 . Duns' sour! Ira 3. C.lerdner,Brniel-at. merchta. Junel3, et eleven, et Be. iringhall-strost--J. Pa C. Woolls, Winchester, lisren-draper , ', June IG, at throe, at. the George lon, Winchester---W. Crooke, Burn- Lsncmhire,. iron-merchants, Juan 10, at eleven, at the 'i',`,.orn Inn, Burnley—J. Richardson, Reigate, ,Surrey, grocer, ; cit e 13, at nine, et, 13asinghall-stroitt—C. BrouAlttoo awl J. I. Garnett, Nantwieh, Cheshire, hankeN, June 15, et eitven, c,„„ wa I n n, Nantwich—C, Crooke, Burnley, Laneashire, cat .„., p i„„ er , June 16, at eleven, at the Thorn Inn, Burnley —T. I)rew, Ex.tter, Wean-draper, June. 10, at eleven, at Buing. he:l^itretet- For...it-wharf, Earl-street, Blackfriata, (-...-ti.factor, Jul& 10, at ten, at Rasinghell-street—J. Hawker, t)i4Jewry, hardwaremiur, June .10, at one, at Basinghall-street Iltrigson, Bath, auctiorwer, June 32, at eleven, at the ( I r ., ; lo?her Inn, Ratb...-E. L. Ogle, Clement's-lane, brick. 10, at eleven, at Basingliall.atreet—E. Allen, Pr i her, June to, at twelve, at the offioe of Meters. Wiriatin ley and Caters% Prest. on. CERTIFICATES, Jutts 10. A. 04 4, Surrey-street, Blackfriars-read, merchant-- p. L 4 ,01 ID A 'William Outteridge, Charles-street, Soho patic; seners--Jarnes Shannon, Liverpool, merchant-- ;e0r.1,. j),An e r, 'lel Lion-street, draper —..Triehll4 Rowe, f lant—Tt. Richmond, Leicester, woollen) Cornwall, were Air ilughea, Worceststr, coal merchunt—E. L. Ogle, ne z ilitos.dane .b 'ckl y r—J Graharn, uphvbkir , , e • CP-aring-croes, clock.malcer—j. S. Depionat St. Ansat's-bine,Ciietapaide, ostrich feather inaluisiturer—W. White, Y'494-4-treet, Sohn, S. D e4 apiei, Queen Charlotte ...l'F, ritw-road, hieli broker—J. Ilushand, Great Pulteney-ttmet, Goblett-eqiuwe, cabinet mukcr—T. C. Waugh, Turnwheel-lane, Cannon-atreet. inerchant—W. B. Finney, Bedford-row, money icriveuer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. anti W: Oldham, Norton Hammer, Yorkshire, nurserymen --A. anti J. PArry, 13rittol, oilmen—lL C. Nunn and T. Orel-- den, Wood-street, Clitapside. carpenters--D. Geere and T. Wy ulark, Newhaven; S'ussex, brewers--T. and S. Wood, Ltul-lane, wholeerde vtationers-:--A. Bogle and A. Reid, London—J. Rich ardson and- T. WMelken, Douglas, Isle -of Man, grocers—D. Gladstone and D. Paton, Liverpool, common brewers—T. Wolin *ley and E. J. Holland, Nicoll-square, Cripplegate, cotton-mann facturers---T. Cooke :Intl T. Harrison, Loughborough, Leices tershire, twist bobbin :art-lace Inachitte-tnakers--A. Holstein, and P. Lee, Quads-I - tut, Itegmt-street, tobacconists—J. Simptgat and J. Druce, Sheffield, carpentere-J-W. China bud T. Bur well, Wilmington-square, Spa-field's, facture—C. dilhurn and T. Nixon, coach-tnakers--11. Seek, A. N. beck, and C. T.anßcli, Bri.7lltitelinstone, Sussex, schuoi-mistres.ses 3. Boyle, J. Clark, and IL Casson, merchant*.-S. Chard I and S. 011ey, ..3tattord-place. Stafford-row, Pimlico, dress-ma ker---R. Smith 'and S. Morse, Hatfield Peverill, Et.sex, throwsters--J.., Haven, M. Harrison, and J. B. Scholey, Law rence-Pountney-laee, 'wholesale grocers—J. Hirst and J. 11. Blackburn, Kingiton-upon-Hull, I,artlwarernen.--T , Newham and J. Moorhoutte, Manchester, general agents—lL Fort, 3. Bury, and J. Bury, Manchester, calico-printers—J. Cloves, sen. and T. Ryder, Birmingham, co..d-dealers—E. Pickett and J. Creeber, Shelton-Mallet, Sontersetshire, clothiers--J. Peirson and J. Price, Great Sutton street, Clerkenwell, working-jewellers--W. E. Oldham 'AO R. Johnson, Stockport, plumbers—H. Bind ' ley and W, Briolsbaw, Stockport, cotton-spinners—J. L. Frost and T. White, 13ristol, wool-tnerchants--W. and R. Ileughan, Leeds, drapers-1. Blaydes and J. Gallsworthy, Selby, York shire, eurriers--.l. , Stailbrd and E. Cropley, Chatiwell, Essex, brick-makers. AVERAGE PRICE OF GRAIN .ANT) SUGAR. GuAIN.--Average Price of Grain, from the Returns received in the Week ended May 18, 1826:—Wheat, 595. 10d. ; Barley, 29e. 3d. ; Oats, ',:Js. Id.; Rye, 375. 9a. ; Beans, 88s. (id. ; Peas 89s. Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending May 17, 1820, is 30.. per cwt., exclusive Of the Duties of Cuitoma paid or payablethereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. MR. EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD. We copy from John Bull the following extraor dinary article, said to lte Mr. Wakefield's statement of facts regarding his marriage with Miss Turner. We, however, can scarcely believe that it is an authentic cornmunication.from that person, for it is written in a style of flippancy and levity which it seems impossible to suppose any man in his present situation could use, while at the same time it affords the most complete specimen of consummate . impudence, deceit, cold heartedness, and want of principle, which was ever exhibited. Hesitating, therefore, in crediting its authenticity, we give it only as other papers have done, and shall he glad to receiv , ! from Mr. Wakefield a denial of its .having been published by him or by his authority : STATEMENT OF FACTS, SILOARDING THE MARRIAGE OF S. WITIS MISS TURISTA. In the end of:Pebruary I went to Macclesfield, for the purpose of paying a long-promised visit to my friend the Rev. Dr. Davie. At that time I had heard Mr. Turner's name mentioned, but merely in casual conversation about Cheshire people ; and I had no more knowledge or thought of his daughter, or any of her family, than I have of people in the Moon: 1 will now state how I Valle to think of her, and to do what I have done. Mr. Turner has lately purchased an estate near Macclesfield. Upon this property he has built a house, into which when I wag in Cheshire, he was abut to remove. iie is sheriff for the county this year. Mr. Turner having, till the lute purchase, been a stranger to the county, and having, as is euid, made a very large comet by trade, which he has diacontinittel, to become, all at once, what is celled a " country gentleman," it is not surprising that he should be an obje..t of jealousy to the old-established gentry, and of envy to the numerous manufacturers of the neigtibourliniel where -tie has settled. But unless I bad witnessed it, I never would have believed that those passions could exist to .the extent in which I found them preying upon tl.e peace of Mr. Turner's neighbours. A wish to obtain information respecting the silk-trade '(of which " the distress" has of late been a subject of deep interest at Macclesfield) led me into the company of the people, awl partieu-, larly amongst some, whose hatred of the " new squire" seemed, like the odium ilseologiennt, to be great in proportion to the little diffilence that exists between his station and theirs. This display (which, probubly, I never should have tviinessed, unless the envy and jeislotisy of Mr. Turner's " friends and ac queintances" had been just then particularly excited by his pre partitions to " du honour," as they said, " to the office of Sheriff") was so new, and therefore so amusing to that I was led by a merellow of spirits, and the want of some better occupation, to take pleasure in observing it, and afterwards, in exciting such pitiful spite, by finding provoking answers to the. Many 111-uatured stories against Mr. Turner, of which such, spite appeared to be the only principal foundation. Of course, amidst all this back-biting, Mr. Turner's only daughter was not forgotten. Sbe was described as ugly, iguurant, awkward, and vulgar. I was truly informed, however, that Miss Turner was a pretty, clever, unusually well-educated, high-spirited, and most amiable girl ; and I wee thus enabled to seize every opportunity of des cribing her in all the colours of the rainbow. A good Hitcher must often contradict. The Macclesfield School for Scandal, end one Sir B. Budd* in particular, found 'sue an inappreciable a udience for their stale sneers, till- etlitet my ears rung with Miss 'Turner's name, and I became her champion, its well as her father's. Still I had no thought of marrying her, I had sought and ,enjoyed the fun of talking about her and her father, because the keople at Maccleafieht would, with the exception of the silk trade, talk about nothing else, and I have said before, because my high spirits had no better einployrueut ; but if I had left Macclesfield two days sooner than I did, I should in a week have forgotten Mite; Turner's name and all that concerns her, as completely as I now forget how and when it was that I learned the alphabet. But on one of the last days of my stay at Maceleifield, I beard a discussion as to whether any " country gentlemen" would ae company the High Sheriff on his way to the Chester Assizes., Thisaliecueekut ended in the expression of a general opinion iu the'neeetlee. My friend, Dr. Device, who is one of the most noble-minded persons I know, wea near me at the time. I ask ed hint, with a look and manner that begged him to say "Yes," whether he would join Mr. Turner's procession? He answered Yes, that I will, if it is only to show that Ido not share peo ple's spiteful jeelousy." Clod knows why I—l cannot tell—hut I exclaimed, "So will I!" A thought, a wish, a determina tion, just then entered my head. It was, that I would marry . Miss Turner myself before the Chester Assists, and get up such an escort for her father, as mud have. driven the most leilioua of his d e tractors mad. • Nothing could appear so preposterously extravagant. All I knew of Mies Turner was, that she was at school at Liverpool. I had no chance of meeting her. Meeting her! I hail no chant., .of pereuading her to marrying me without her father's consent; and his consent was out of the question, for I had made weep-. peintment at Calais within sixthly' from that time, end I would not allow any thing to interfere with that engagement. " What folly ! what madness !" I exclaimed ; and yet I could not drive the crazy wish from my head. I foresaw that, even -though I should persuade Miss Turner to marry me; I should obtain, not a rich heiress, but a beggar • for I knew that she bad no property in her own right, and I had I,eard enough of the vindictiveness of her father's temper' to be almost certain that he wall never for give us. I thought of the paleioe of hatred towards myself that would probably take possession of him, of the apparent impossi bility of success, of the great danger of the attempt, of the world's reproaches, and of everything that would have deterred me,• bad I been in any sense% from committing the act of a rnmiman. Still I had nut entirely lost any sense; ' • for my determination to marry Mise Turner was clogged with three very reasonable con aitionw. They were, first—that I should find her to be a sort of parson whom f could love and cherish for her own sake ; ea °°llli, that I should bring her to believe that she would be happy in marrying me; and, thirdly, that I' would not use force, tir th e ehaeh.av of force, nor even put the slightest restraint upon h inclinations, in any part of the adventure. litre was a task I To marry 'within three days a person of whom i knew at, little, and whose knowledge of me must have been equally limited; and (for this toedethe diffieultiee almost in surmountable) to become pleseed with her, and make her pleased with me, before even proposing marriage to her ! The apparent Impossibility of the thing urged me on ; and I pursued its execution 'with rm.:khans activity. I fore and re- jected plan after plan, till, at last, sleeitled on that which in duCed the schoolmistress to give me the opportunity I desired of conversing with Miss Turner. illy servant, who was not above half in the secret, was so fright ened at the success of his own grave and unsuspicious deportment, that he made a capital blunder, by leaving me at Liverpool, and proceeding with Mir Turner towards Shrigley. She was SO Miles before me ou her way towards home, before I discovered that she had left Liverpool. I followed, of course, intending, had they reached Shrigley, to drive there at once, and . ;et my,servant . out of the scrape at any rate. But fate had decreed that Miss Turner should wait at an hotel at ?Manchester, clove to the house of ope of her favourite uncles, for more than two hours, without thesign,of i tnpatien cc. . On reaching the inn, I introduced myself to her, not by telling her,my name; nor indeed any otherwise than by saying that the carriage would be ready in a moment. I then. talked of her jour ney, of the rain, of a curious dock whiciore could see from the inn windows, and, indeed, of any thing that might prevent her asking' questions for which-I should have so answers. She was not in the least alarmed, but answered the cheerfully and aptly upon every subject. In ten inmates the carriage was ready. f!;;Ile held my arm whilst I stood in the hall talking to a waiter, joined me in wishing the landlady good-day; and entered the car riage amidst a crowd of idle psers, whom my hurried arrival hsd collected round the inn. She hall Very often been at • Manchester, and knew perfectly that the honies' heads were turned in an opposite direction to the road "to Shrigley. When I entered the carriage, the wooden blinds were raised. I, lowered them, fearing that such an ap pearance of concealment might, excite' curiosity; and, after asking her if she had forgotten' nothing; ordered the boys to drive on. • The first thing I said to her in the carriage was; "Do you know why you have been' sent for from school?"---" Yes," she said, "Miss Daulhy told me, though she was desired not to tell me, that my mother is ill." I immediately.assured her that this was not the eAse; that I had reasons for deceiving Miss Daulby ; that Mrs. Turner was, I believed, quite well ; and that she should have a full explanation by and by. she teemed gratified to learn that her mother van) not ill, and neither expressed, nor showed, the slightest anxiety tnknow more. I then exerted every, power ; vim! mind to amuse and please her. My great object was to draw her out ; to see what sort of a Mind she had ; to learn what had been her education, and w h a t wer e her opinions, manners, and habits, I soon discovered (what our subsequent close intimacy hasfully confirmed) that she has a vivid imagination,. and a judgment be yond her years. Why, then, it may he asked, were nut her sus— picions excited? lit..cause, I answer', her imagination enabled to: to discover, at once, the subjects that interested her : und, tinning that discovery to acerunt, to make myself an object of interest to her; and she felt no alarm in my company, because her judgment enabled her to see and feel the great pains that I took to treat her with the delicate anti respectful, i'et tender kind. nets, that her extraordinary situation demanded. Itmost he difficult for any one to imagine what actually oc curred ; but I assert, that if she had been a fool (as the news papers have industriously represented her) she Would prohally have hesitated to continue the journey with me. As it vas, not even a shadow of alarm, nr even of suspicion, ever cruswd her naiad. A state of high excitement caused my spirits to overflow. She was almost equally elated. We talked and laughed incessantly. Never in nay life did I say so much in the same time. All subjects came under discuestiou—the gravest uud the most ridiculous--the Must important anal the. most trifling.. Her quickness, imagina tion, and good sense, astonished and delighted me. Instead of having to bring any conversation down to the capacity of en ordi nary school-girl, I found that I could talk C! &.t renthau, and that she understood every word I said. She, too, was gratified to dis neer that I enjoyed her display of a natant,' Wit end keen sense .of the ridiculous, with which she, is gifted, Marbles, it issaid, are made its heaven : ours was made by the fait two hours of our conversation. • It may he asked—if I had found her ugly, ignornut, and vul gar, as she had once been described to me, what should I have done? My mind was quite made up. I should have taken her back to Liverpool, desired the schoolcoistrees to send immediately ,for Mr. Turner, and should have left with her, for him, a partial skcount of my freak—urging him to conceal it fur his child's sake. I Lad not mentioned marriage to her., As any motive!) for taking her back would never have been suspected, so my mo tives for taking her awes , would never have been diseuveted. I intended to refine all explanation upon the subject, beyond ad mitting an act of seeming folly, and in part deteribing what would have been considered an unfathomable mystery.. I trusted to Mr. TUrner's good sense to keep the watt. At all events, that was My intentiou. If she bad felt ularine, 3 ,, and bad objected to travelling with me, I should have made for Button, and should have sent her home with the landlady; of, the Buxton Hotel. In this ease, as my object in taking her away would have been suspected, I should neither have appeared nor have written; and .1 had, by many pre cautions, taken care to conceal the real actor in what would have laeen called "ou unsuccessful attempt to run sway with Miss Turner." But, instead of having to fulfil 'either of these inten tions,.es'ery thing ► conspired to confirm my main resolution. No one can imagine the pains I took to know my future wife, and finding her, as I did, all that is delightful, bow I strove to in terest her, and make her plemed with me. That I succeeded, there can be no doubt; fur when, having meals up any mind to propose marriage to her, I asked her whether she knew where she was going ? She said, "No ; but 1 suppose you do? And Ido not wish to be told. 'I rather enjoy the uncertainty." 'I informed ber that she was going into Yorkshire, and that she would probably meet her father nt Huddersfield. " Very well," she replied; and she then reverted to the conversation which had been broken off by my question. This occurred after we had left Manchester about three hours. As we proceeded, we still talked ineresailtly, and often 'alluded to the strungeneee of our situation. I gradually assumed towards her a installer which I cannot readily describe. It was not studied. It was perfectly nntural. I behaved to her as "would to a beloved sister, whom I had joined, after separation from childhood, and whom my whole soul was bent upon pleasing— with careful reserve, and yet with the most affectionate frank ness—with intimacy without familiarity, and with the greatest, the most marked, and thoughtful kindness, but with nu more ten denim than any man of feeling would display to a helpless woman accidentally placed under-his sole protection. She was, I suppose, pleased by this manner of treating her. By what means I cannot tell further ; but that she was pleased I had soon ample proof. As we approached Huddersfield; I mentioned the possibility of our not locating her father there, and of her having to travel on with me till the following day. Now, her love for her father is unbounded, and forms, perhaps. the most marked trait of her character. Yet, us she lass since often assured me, she was agreeably disappointed et hearing that she might not see him so soot', and that the might continue to travel with me till the next day. Few will believe this; but it is, strictly true ; and I know so well her love of truth, and sense of justice, that I am sure she will confirm any assertion. lam not such 11 coxcomb as to any that she was in love with me: but, as I. was already delighted with her, who had taken no pains to pleitie, .she might well he pleased with roe, who had spared none to captivate. I cannot explain this secret of- her heart ; but I state the fact, according to any belief and lier assurance.' • On reaching Huddersfield, my supposition of her regret at the thought of our separation waste s eparaned by her high • spirits whilst we were at an inn there---alter I had told her diet we bad no chance of seeing her father till the next day. We stayed an hour, I believe, at the inn, where. we ate, drank, talked, laughed, and amok played, as if we had been on a party of pleasure. It was then clerk. She expected to travel alone with rue all :night ; and she knew neither 'to What . place she was ,going, nor with what object so • strange a joerney had , been undertaken. But she did continue the journey, not merely without a :sign of hesitation, but with every Mark of delight 'at our incessant con verse.tiun, and the hurry and excitement of the whole adventure: At Halifax, my servant, on whom fright and fatigue bad ' brought on a fit of the gout, remained behind. Openly, cud so that she must have heard me, but in French (which I did. not then know she perfectly understands), I gave him orders to return to London. 1(e asked roe whether he should engage " family rooms" for one in the Brunswick Hotel? 1 said " Yes ; but do not tell any body that I am married, but go to bed, and stay in bed, ill or well, till you see me three days hence." This, I suspect, did partially open her eyes to my ultimate object; for soon afterwards, ais, I was ta lking to my brother, in French, about her, and _th l ti me w h e n w e might reach Scotland, she desired us not to "tell 'secrets" in French, unless we wished her to understand them, Ile this as it .may, we continued t o travel throu g h the night , occupied " beke with incessant conve rsation. H e r spirits never flagged forfora moment. Every thing, almost was converted i n t o an excuse for laughi ng .. The all but dangerous rapidity w i t h which the Yorkshire past-boy" drove throu g h the'darlenees ; the ligiiiiirent-reqtar ' . ets Of more t h an one landlady on the road, that we would honon r th em w ith our company on our return; my struggles after tw o s l eep l es s n ights with au almost overpowering drowsiness ; various, petty accidents; and the p robab il i ty , ascer tuned during th e ni g ht, that the carriage would break into piec es all fi, before daylight,„,,ished us with reasons , or rather' exeuses, for being so merry, that any one who could have seen and keard us, must have been satisfied of the perfect good will of both par ties to lose no time in reaching Gretna-green. I, of course, continued to direct my whole attention to im proving her partiality.for me, not merely by sharing and encou raging her joyous good humour, bat also by entering into all her feelings, and by bestowing upon her such personal attentions and caresses as, without being indelicate, or calculated to alarm her modesty, were an unequivocal declaration of my wishes and in tentions. And I undoubtedly succeeded ; for before we reached Kendal, she treated me with all the affectionate confidence and gratifying intimacy that a cherished friend and admitted lover could have expected from her. At Kendal, after breakfast, I was about to undeceive her, to explain the stratagem I bad used, in order to know her and make myself known unto her, and to attempt, by a common course of supplication and argument, to persuade her to marry me. The Devil reminded me that, besides the means of persuasion furnished by our already established intimacy, I had a very power ful argument to use. She had passed one whole night with me ! end I could have urged that, for her own sake, she would do well to become my wife without delay. True it was, that I treated her with the utmost delicacy ; and her conscience would have been clear, though she had not married me. But then there was an ill-natured world, which, knowing how much I had done, would never give me credit for any degree of forbearance, and would laugh at any giving declaration of mine, as the mere result of fear or repentance. The argument was, indeed, at least to a gentle- Woman, tremendously powerful; but I felt an invincible repug nance to using it. *A romantic fit (for which no stranger will give me either blame or credit) came upon me ; and under its influ ence, I dreaded to appear a brute in the eyes of this sweet girl, who was already so well inclined to like me, and whom, kad I used that ungenerous argument, I should have married by a means which promised to ensure for me her dislike instead of the tender love that I then felt certain of inspiring her with. Still, what other chance had I of obtaining her free, and full, and openly expressed approval of an immediate marriage? Even though, as I half suspected, she should not, in heart, object to be 'coming mine, she must, for the sake of her pride, have made ob jeCtions which I could not have answered; and it therefore be hoved me' to furnish her with some excuse for yielding to my wishes. There was no time to loose. Whether or not I should use the ungenerous argument, I had passed one night with her. I had gone too far to recede, if it were possible to advance by any means short of constraint. The ungenerous argument recurred to me continually ; but I always repelled it, and sought till my head ached for some other means of inducing and excusing her approval of an immediate marriage, without .destroying her good. opinion of Inc. At last the device struck me, which I ultimately used with we ceitx ; and I declare that that pretext was employed, not as the surest and easiest means of persuading her, but as the only one which would' enable me to marry her without, in the very act of marriage, risking the lows of - her good opinion. • She entered at once, and I may say,. eagerly, into what she hougla a scheme for securing her tether's fortune. There was no holding back, no heeiteti le " Yes," she Said, " with plea sure,\ for papa's sake." She eidently exulted at the idea of being useful to her parents, and exit weed so beautifully her admirable feelings towards them, that I vas very near clasping her in rrty arms and betraying all. . Here, in order to show that I am not the ruthless ravisher, and that she is not the consummate fool, that we have been described, 1 roust proceed with consideraLle detail. 'As soon its she had expressed net only her consent, but her wish to marry me, I said to her, " Ella, you have one other import ant consideration. If you ieel any repugnance towards me—if you do riot feel that you shall be able to love me, to be very happy in living with rue entirely henceforth, tell me so without hesita tion. There is no absolute necessity for our marriage. I beg of you to reflect most carefully upon this point, and to examine your feelings towards me. You have seen very little of me, but still we are become as intimate as if we had known each other for years.' I hope, and do not doubt to treat you always, for your own sake, with more than the tenderness which your peculiar situation has hitherto obtained from me. Bin think ; and do not decide rashly. If you dislike or object to marry ill:, say so, and - I will take you back to Shrigley, when your father's alfeirs must be arranged in some other way," • This speech, which was dictated by a vain wish to satisfy my self that I had a large share in her decision, she listened to With 'he deepest attention. I would not allow her to answer erotic , tlieeely. A long pause (which she will perfectly recollect) ensued. At last she slid, " If you are always as you are now, I hope to be veil happy with pee." " But," asked I, "What do you believe?" We bandied these words, hope and believe, till we both laughed. I Could not expect her to make an impressive declaration of attach ment, I told her I wee satisfied, as her answer left every thing to depend upon me. I thanked her, kissed her, and encircled Ler ice my arms, and from that moment I treated her es my future wife ; talking to her of the years of enjoyment I promised myself in her society ; of my anxious desire to obtain her tenderest love, and to consult her welfare and happiness by every means in my power ; Of my tender and affectionate feeling towards her, and of a thousand things that u mast would say to his affianced bride just before their marriage. In all this I was perfectly sincere. Her admirable conduct had in it few hours (hours which circumstances had ;pun out to weeks) made me love her more than I should probably have done after a common acquaintance of years. Her courage and pretence of mind ; her good sense and judgment ; her wit and acquirements ; her most 'pude and affectionate, yet roost happy and cheerful temper ; her helpless situation ; her evident partiality for ma ; the very wrong, but for such partiality, I should have been inflict ing upon her ; all conspired to fill me with the strongest emotions of tenderness towards her. I swore to myself and to her to renders her the happiest of women, and to make her, as a devoted hus band, more than ample reparation. • This tenderness -from rue, and the caresses to which it gave rise, soon restored our cheerfulness. As we passed the mountains of 'Westmoreland, we projected a summer visit to the Lakes. Near Carlisle, and on the border, it svas imposable to think and speak of any thing but Waverley and Welter Scott, and the lest hour of our journey to Gretna was occupied in telling stories of the hair-breadth escapes of runaway couples, and in all but boisterous mirth at the anticipated surprise of her Cheshire friends and ac quaintances when they should hear of her marriage. When near Gretna, I found that she IWO well acquainted with the marriage-service, having, as she told me, " often read it, little thinking, then, that she should want it so soon." I, therefore, in order to gratify another 'mantic whim, took care that the ceremony should he more formal and solemn than is either necessary or usual at Gretna. She performed her part in it with the utmost cheerfulness; giving steadily, and with evi dent signs of feeling, right answers to the solemn questions of the marriage-service ; and, when I first celled her my wife, site ern brace] me with as much tenderness as if I had been the long che rished object of her choice. The die was now irrevocably cast; but I had still three im portant objects in view—to keep my engagement at Calais; to inform Mr. Turner, as soon as possible, that his daughter was legally, and to speak as humbly as possible, not ineligibly mar ried ; and if possible to conceal from my wife that I had in any degree sinned against her father,' I therefore proceeded at once to Dover, and sent my brother into Cheshire, with instructions to ' conceal nothing from Mr. Turner, but to urge hint to avoid a public scandal, and above all things, 'to join me, for his child's sake, in maintaining her good opinion of me. • Unfortunately, when my brother reached - Shrigley, Mr. Tee pee was in London ; and he was persuaded to trust an explana tem to a third person, who knew nothing but the bare fact of the marriage. On our journey to Calais, and daring our stay there, my wife's confidence in me was without limit; her high spirits rather increased than diminished; and our mutual attachment seemed, as it was, sincere and unbounded. At Dover she made the acquaintance of some friends of mine, who crossed the Channel with us, and who will bear witness to our mutual affection. Calais, although a wretched place, was full of novelty and amusement to her. There we passed nearly a week, like any other newly-married couple, and as if neither she nor I had any reason for anxiety. Indeed, although occasionally I could not r i i h n x e e vn tZ tl e e rua i e u fi to l E t i j.l c o a b t -- - but be anxious to learn in what manner Mr. Turner had el-dined& girl, w h ose happiness, whatever might be the conduct received my brother's commuulacanatioanms,uslinwg,asthsoe high -spirited teaching, dressing, caressing, at' I. e e family, s octw) almostliutwhich pmyicierhatLer l: 1 leot every the e:otenderness. doie,:t :r, vif firstromtr thingi t n o t: i bg b mpu l a g e l, et ).ch And rn od inf the no i ny erevolutiond . existence, y f oin that I was indifferent V o ) f. p a ssionate and romantic husband—that it mingenxtmotfureth.e mwhomobeehanasit.t,.,rul,etg, neglected, and always restrained school-girl, into j ai : l c: he: lf eas s itu yo os e rtio ng :ea tisilenoeart ftllytiodowloonfdera at her having, under its happy influence preferred the vaudeville even of a Calais theatre, to the die-awa y songs of a Liverpool concert ; the hasty productions of a tenth rate marchand de modes to, the little co4-3tuttle bonnet and scanty p e li s se of a 1 . 1111=1014 1 4 aTe . lPlTlltiker • an d ____ ~._ , my poor company to that of her governess. On the 15th March the Duyer Packet brought a friend for whom I was wa it i n g , and my wife's uncles. 411 the zlevigimPer accounts of our TileetiOg are mere inventions. They went to the Hotel Meurice, where, I was told, they had asked for me. I proceeded there, but not finding them, returned to the Hotel Quillacq, and was then informed that ildr. Robert Turner and Mr. Critchley, together with a lawyer, and several Bow-street officers, were coming to arrest me on a charge of abduction, and that Mrs. Turner was dangerously ill. My carriage and passports were ready, and I could have escaped to the world's eud with my wife; but I really wished to meet her uncles ; and even if I bad not so wished, the accounts of Mrs. Turner's situation would have fixed me to the spot. I sent to Messrs. Turner and Critchley, to say that I awaited them. When they appeared, I begged for a short conversation with them before they should see their niece. My object in desiring to see them first, was to tell them the whole truth, and to entreat that for her sake they would not, as she was now my wife, give her a had opinion of me. They turned a deaf ear to all that 1 could say upon that subject, seemed convinced that the marriage was null and void, and urged me, in consideration of Mrs. Turner's most dangerous illness. and Mr. Turner's abject disused. to put no obstacle to the return of their daughter to England. I could not hesitate for an instant. I led her to them, and left her with them some time. On my return, I found her as touch convinced as they were that we were not married. I then, seeing their misery, hastened to afford them all the com fort in my ponder, by taking them into their niece's bed-room, and assuring them that was the first time I had ever entered it.— Mr. R. Turner asked me if I had any objection to write what I bad stated ? " Not the sliehtest," I replied, " if you think that it will be a comfort to Mr. and Mrs. Turner ;" and I immediately wrote a strong declaration to the effect of what I had just assured them. Mr. R. Turner and Mr. Critchley will bear witness that I did not do this under the influence of fear, or to obtain credit or favour for myself ; but that. seeing their conviction that uu marriage had taken place, sad induced by their repeated assertions to entertain, myself, a doubt upon the subject, I did it voluntarily and calmly, merely to give the whole family some consolation in their distress. There was then some desultory cons ersation about arresting toe. This I knew was out of the question, but I offered, if the lawyer would undertake that I should be hailed, to proceed imme diately to London. He would not give me an assurance to that effect. I therefore declined, returning to England immediately • but I assured Messrs. Turner - and Critchley, that I would eel, taiuly appear there very soon, and meet manfully, though sub missively, the worst consequences of what I had done. On the same day I addressed a letter to Mr. Turner, in which I 'eagerly sought to remove from . his daughter to myself, all tbs blame that might attach to our marriage, and repeated,' eve" stronger terms, my previous declaration, under th e same impulse that had induced me to make it to his brothers. The following extract front that letter will show the spirit is which it was written : " I am assured, Sir, by your brothers, that my marriage 's null and void. If this be the cue, I shall feel the deepest regret' not on my own accouut, I hope, but because reparation will there' • by be put out of my power. If your daughte r be nut, and should never be, my wife, I have, indeed, done you an irreparable in jury. In that caste I should desire to give y o u some proof o f ab ject repentance, if any sacrifice on my part could only tend o to wards removing the evils of which I shall have been the authr but I fear I shall be unable to do you any good by suffering tar self. Nevertheless, I shall place myself at your disposition.-- Every facility shall be afforded by me for the pursuit of yourrea geance. Igo to Paris only to fulfil an indispens able engegame a , a t ' "' and shall hasten to return, to suffer cheerfully whatever pilaus meat it may be your pleasure to inflict upon me. "If I have not mistaken the spirit of our brothers' law • sures, nothing but the Act of Parliament can decide whether of not your daughter be my wife. For her sake, I certainly or' that she is ; but if she be not, and if you decide that she doubt shall he, then I have only to desire that every shadow of slii may be removed from the question ; and, in effecting this , 1 that not only be ready, but most anxious to afford any arista nca it may happily be in my power to offer. hastyl true e us l t, tte Sir, , itwritten. that I d notouwillo n otseek a misinterpretby the vo s u p r irit o iumw.Thogthis fiochr, lam not influenced by any feeling of alarm. I fa am Pffreparea and a c n o d m a fo n r x t i , ous to meet, the consequences of what I have done, have no hope of being able to persuade you to think favour abl y us t r me. I have tried to write, in the first place, with a viewsa :La ; at repair thata n t n o t secondly,ge ff g iave grievous wtdh , ao have obtained no answer manly frankness which, I trust, is habitual to me ; to ou' a s rrs least, if at present you know nothing but ill of nle , Yol'..aiytete to u tul thi n d ; n e g r ub b a u tedi t co a n y s v w n ic e o t a i u k o l i n t n i gtghicol.tevilnleaaredinco:yofourrt i s n on u , " wi . th , t h s e s . warrant again_ i st Mr. Turner answered this letter by oh ....4 Mia in a i - t h a n I baren7 me for a capital felony. Ino sta'ae r b " . " - °f !w ielder u'ree l yt for w in ro y n f g ut b ur y e eve n ry ppeogn • naeansce.in leis Power." :ueerur.:"llauerintd. E4'1413 where have alwaYa bpi angi'll'ittilterto my offers CO /from Willett I be a,- lam impelled to make this statement, s . purposely excluded numerous corroborative view to my own justification, for that I know is imports,' sad Inure) • in order to remove from myself some of the most have bees east from nay wife the mortifying, imputations which upon us both. st that tbis make her suffer for my sins. 1 will, ther e o n, tru done aid Mr .. repeated acknowledgment of the injury that have e wish to Turner, and the proof which it furnishes that I have u_ thou defend myself, may check, for the future, the well reaand are stUl It may be well to pursue um vindictively, but it is crud to misguided zeal with which his agents bare laboured, sod from Ihlr. Turn tba striving to make his daughter a public laudgeht4in'ig'mcn°a.t. object of everlasting curiosity and comment. ai r Turner, The above statement has been s ubmitted to • • gether with the following letter : in a l"- Sir—ln compliance with the implied pledge j love ter which I lately addressed to the editor of the of the honour to enclose, for your consideration,. an acc o st it s ue, circumstances attendant on my marriage, which, aucati intention to circulate amongst my private frienain u , Ilea If the public statements respecting your daughter '1 not, for the most part, appeared originally in ti ter Iwo is supposed to be under the coutroul of your Watt A 7:.. 14 hoe stir treated them with complete indifference, mod nothing 1 ":" 4 induced me to aid in making your daughter all'obj eci , Laao t oy discussion ; but, as many of the ridiculous and inettu , "_7,:a, of graphs respecting us both have been inserted with the I;c g r e, j your authority, though I feel certain without your aa w ,,, t siro am impelled to rectify the misrepresentations which time! en I t ls t, yourescg in their true colours, amongst lily r 1 daughter's amiable character and admirable wadi'•4l,o And althoughit has been impossible for sne to de t his ^ to : o iss acknowledging, in their fullest extent, my beavY si o aa ede sicat you, I have no objection to your making such tick" , '" d l e a,ine public, in all details, if you should agree with me 1, o ay thereby the fake imputations cast upon y our daughter be removed. wish t° To you, Sir, lam *mauve to repeat, that I have re to escape from the punishment which it ma y be your plea" diet upon me. • • • do° sub ß m u i t tt l in m g u m 't ;se a lf t the to our v ti e m ngs e, an be c g e, yo l u ha to ve be n tevrell'illt: l L o ' : 4thi:l4 being alb to moderate your anger. My sole ressuas_.,,,,ey step are, the recollection of toy eng a g ement to ly e"plel your disposition, and an anxious deeire to focilitAr,,ol eve ace , means in my power, whatever course of procesali a g,..l ps thought most conducive to your daugh ter ' s advantage. t. the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble eer,s/loop, London, May 6. EDWARD a W Al""t" POETRY. TIIE CHARM OF FICTION. Oh ! tell me not that I love too well The legends cf ancient days to tea's, And Flame me not when I fondly dwell On the fabled deeds of the fairy race • When my apirit has mourn 'tl aver hopes grown 004 How dear have these tales of enchantment been; For it s,etrk'd as they cast a mantle's fold Alys‘::f and the al to'd world between. Thus, when by the Wild and wintry storms I have seen the beauty of Nature defac i d, I have g,aid with delight on the fanciful form' By the thick hoar-frost on t he casement traA ll I have grieved to think that their beau:ire must Fade with the breath of t h e first bright hoer Rock, forest, and silvery waterfall, And diamond palace, and rosy-bungbower. If those fragile pictured more brilliant are Than the landscape beyon d, which they veil Tre'" 3. :- Oh ! how shall the tedium of life compare Th VY u en - l i , d w ic t te th re cam e fvo4irseoo7h:be juthltdhatelghtPleho:rkslpeoefillgruchief:f.tervYorly:::i_ I had rather live in this fancied Than turn to the d ark cold %vial& agetial 1 .